NEW VISION
OUR FOCUS IS ON PROSPERITY, STRATEGIC SECURITY – CID BOSS
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Summary: The Director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), AIGP Tom Magambo, has said Uganda has made great progress over the last 38 years and most of the issues affecting it have largely been resolved. “The focus of the President’s leadership is on prosperity and strategic security to guarantee the future of our people,” he said on Thursday last week.
MPS COMMEND INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
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Summary: Parliament’s Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development has commended the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) for its role in advancing Uganda’s industrialisation agenda. The MPs called for more budgetary support to UIA for industrial park development, to promote value-addition and generate the urgently required employment opportunities for the youth.
GOVERNMENT STARTS CONSTRUCTING 116 SEED SCHOOLS
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Summary: The project will have three core components, including expansion of lower secondary education, supporting education in refugee-hosting districts, as well as improving teachers’ support and strategy development nationally.
UK ANNOUNCES UGX 74.2B TO BOOST UGANDA’S REFUGEE RESPONSE
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Summary: The UK has announced £16.5m (UGX 74.2b) grant to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support the refugee response Uganda in the 2024/25 financial year. Lisa Chesney, the British High Commissioner to Uganda, said this funding will enable WFP to expand cash transfers for general food assistance in nine settlements, benefiting over 800,000 of the most vulnerable refugees.
SPORTS EDITION
KENYA HERE WE COME
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Summary: The Uganda U17 Women’s National Team, the Teen Cranes, exerted their dominance in the first round of the 2025 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers by eliminating Namibia with an emphatic 18-1 aggregate yesterday.
DAILY MONITOR
UGANDA AMONG TOP 10 COUNTRIES PROJECTED TO ATTAIN HIGH GROWTH
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Summary: The World Bank Global Economic Prospects 2025 has put Uganda’s growth at 6.2 percent, placing the country among the top economies that will register high economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
